Replacing ruined stables along the south of the site, the auditorium
(completed in 2002) marks the western end of a row of teaching rooms along the
road edge.

Without breaking the old boundary wall, they are entered from the higher
ground within. The gallery floor, above this new line of class rooms, provides
student spaces for hanging out, for reading and working in a private
atmosphere, for waiting for classes, as well as toilets.

The main hall of the complex, easily seating 350 with more around the
balcony, is a lovely multi-polar space; an enclosed, landscaped corner backing
onto the lava wall, its series of platforms providing varied
"performance" spaces. These can even be used simultaneously and in
many different ways, its fixed seats all swivelling towards the appropriate
focus.

The Auditorium is conceived to be open to the town for talks, theatre or
film.